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OK, OF WsIDET. MASS.
CITY HALL JAY -. --,l-.r
To --c city Clerk, Jacksonville tie
DEAR SlE-Oa the 18th Cay Of Nav,
So, Hattie T. Lewis OF this city died in
yu01 city s. the house Of Captain Book,
,lgt East FORSYTH street, Sh- "as at
tended in her Iaar sickness by Dr. Neal
Mitchell and d.. $ .olleuTreCk, and mad 8
consultation with d. Ricari Vi s..
/ Lul-'s hospital,
] have written the latter gentleman,
but Hsvc received no reply, My OBJECT
in writing this is on behalf Of ner
mot4lr, who is feeling badly, and who is
DESTROYS Of learning ali particulars Of
+ this mysterious death. Her mother
rhiuh- though she has uyj expressed the
thought TO me thar something wlong
happened which caused or fastened her
jeEjl.
/ b answering you would confer gieat
favor On q sOET0W,n@ womEu, which
would be greatly appreciated by yours
truly, LEyEEETT d. HOLDEN,
Clay Clerk.
A reporter Of the Naws-Herald was
given copy Of this letter and sent I'd in
-gIylew the residents mentioned in it.
Dr. Neal Mitchell is sway at the north,
and sny facts which he may possess could
n0l be 8sCertGined.
WHAT CAPTAIN BEJCh KNOWS.
Captain Charlie Brock. one Of the BEST
and brayest q river captains, was found
and talked freely. He said:
'Jn the latter part Of March or tirs. Of
A--I. 81 man calling himself Lewis APP
p). z 1y house to rent some rooms. lie
hskwi6h him his daughter and woman
NGrlI ne represented to be bis daugI-
4&t3Ss travelling companion. They sp-
Je8tS q 10 ne respectable people, and Inc
FDal};s were let 10 them.
+ Hs8lr. Lewis diJ nj remain great
whila a. me house. lie mad not .eel
the! e,lQlg before it was observed DE
mem 9ttasgf. my feIli5Y thai his manners
toward the ddughteri5 travelling com
p-ui0u were suspiclOusly familiar. / was
leaving flr ny ~p-giver trIp and did moi
VIXEN got back, Il tl-lr conduct was
o1iec loEaaie p the meanfme'
"WGet W2s JAis travelling companion q
name"
IL was given - Iarv CRlvauoCN
.Wan, what did you d. when YOU came
5s1h.'
"Wacn I got home again tAe mau had
Ia1t-toWn. =. waa said he had gone 1-
! Texas. Nothing 10 p2r,cular had oc
clrrz4 after left, aud - tie man was
! gOhasT dismissed my suspicious for the
'Jf-Is snjtae woman stayed.
'.G hat sort OF person was tais j4uga-
sgrs"
"a girl Of seventeen or eighteen years
. O. age, l should think; I'm perfect health
apparently: unusually pretty, clever
+ rrght and wcIl-0red. There was nothing
about her cOaduc- 10 excite special re-
marx except that 1t was plain TO as thg'
the woman CalyannO exercised q strong
/ i-tleuct over her and that the girl rU-
gar1ed the woman at times with some
thing Ike fear or dTesd.
'Weu, not long after Lewis went awey
Miss Lewis was taken III and she and
THE CALvAS&o WOMAN
went down 70 MaypOrt together. They
were gone several days, and when they
cane back the girl was very SICK.
''The doctors were called, out Miss
Lswis ssuk rapidly and died after very
brief Illness. Lewis was aenL for and al
rived lust before The girl died. After heI
death the body was embalmed and Lewis
and the woman CalvaLnO went n5rtl with
it to Maiden, Mass, wlere they came
from -
"What do you think Of it allf'
u'Wcll, at the time, d.du't have any
suspicion as to the girls sickness and
death, but since they went away aud l
have haa time 90 think Of everything
that happened [ have felt mighty sorry
hr rr r-T
door, for believe there was foul play
a50u. that girls death. hope not, bur
il looks too much ike it,
"What do you know ABOUT LeWis!'
"Nothing much, except that he came
from Maiden, IN Massachusetts,, snd
have learned since ne went away that be
had separated from his wife aud inst this
Calyanno woman was the cause Of It lie
was man Of forty years or SO. Tht
woman was s wicked-lOokiEg person
/ she looked to NE and my FOLKS Ike
scheming woman and al sdveuuuress.'
Is $Dld Miss Lewis have nurse TO at
tend herr"
''Yes, but the Calvanno woman had al
WAYS &C cess to the sickrOOm
WHAT I.R sToLLENwRRcE SAID
4 reporter met Dr.. p. j. S,olIenwerc
during the day and talked with him a0ou
the case.
The doctor said that Dr. Ricard, th
lsdy physician at ST Luke's hospital, wa:
hrst called 20 attend Miss Lewis; tbs
. IT Ricard called DR.. Neal Mitchell t
advise with her, aud that when ID
Mitchell came Dr.. R,caTd was dismissed
whereup0n DR.. Mitchell also withdrew
from the case, for reasons Of professions